The Two Smart Blondes are joined by special guest, Paul Ayre. Paul is an actor, comedian and writer, based in Sydney. They dive into:

*Heath Ledger's tragic death – re-examined … an how actors embody a character.

There has been a flurry of articles and talk about Heath Ledger this past week, all due to one short sentence, spoken by Michelle WIlliams, Heath's former partner and mother of his daughter. On a recent podcast, Armchair Expert, with Dax Shepard, Michelle was asked about her relationship with Heath. She said he was ”so special and thank God they have Matilda'.  It also prompted some media outlets to revisit his tragic death, which was by accidental drug overdose in 2008. He had been filming the Dark Knight and playing the character of the Joker at the time.

*Is the ”Good Guy” image unfair?…And has Hugh Jackman lost his?

The Good Guy or the Good Girl image is often great… until it's not. Aussie actor, Hugh Jackman has held the good guy title for decades, but since going through his separation and now divorce with Deborra Lee Furness… is it starting to slip? And does it actually matter for his career? Deborra officially filed for divorce this week and issued a statement which said “My heart and compassion goes out to anyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal. It is a profound wound that cuts deep”.

*Did you also think that pea snack was real? We did!

You might have seen the viral social media rant, where Tiktoker, Nia, discovered that her favourite household snack ”Harvest Snaps Baked Pea Crisps”… are not in fact little pea pods at all. That's despite a large picture of a pea pod on the package. She thought it was a dehydrated pea. So how easily are we fooled by food packaging and good marketing?

About the guest:

Paul Michael Ayre is a writer and actor born in Maidstone, Kent and raised in Sydney Australia. Paul wrote the pilot for Channel 10's Drunk History which went on to series, as well as winning over $70,000 worth of writing prizes for his self-produced series The Justice Lease and an extra thousand for his writing on the award winning series The Pet Killer. His online sketches across different platforms and channels have amassed over 36 million views with many Australian collaborators (The Bondi Hipsters, SketchShe and Legally Brown).  Paul has performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for 5 years, with several solo stand up shows  His recent credits in television, include most streamers like Netflix's Wellmania, ABC's Barons and Stan's Bali 2002 – the retelling of the 2002 Bali bombings opposite Claudia Jessie.

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